Admission

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd go rom-drahm, while Lily Tomlin runs circles around everyone.

"...story’s comic and dramatic aspects and leaves behind a lumpy residue that tars its likable leads, Tina Fey and..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kung Fu Panda

Jack Black's animated Po may be an animated panda bear, but deep down, he’s really just a nerd with a pop-culture obsession.

"...this movie’s howling, lunch-box-buying fan base. With a lovable, lumpy loser as its hero, the movie is just the..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

How to Make a Piñata

Honorable mention

"...sharp curved horns, a star with multicolored points, a lumpy ladybug, or even a hot air balloon to carry..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Books Feature by Jenny Browne

The Exorcist: Believer

David Gordon Green moves from Halloween to another massive horror franchise

"...base. That said, it's hard to imagine that the lumpy Halloween Ends will ever garner the belated acclaim of..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Heaven Is for Real

Greg Kinnear plays a dad who believes his son's claim to have seen heaven.

"...father’s test of faith that gives the film its lumpy form. For Todd Burpo, a financially strapped man of..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Tyson

Mike Tyson tells his life story in his own words in this documentary by longtime friend James Toback.

"...lightning-fast limbs corded like banyan trees, his face a lumpy, horrifying mask of endless hate. But in the end,..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dan Dietz

New Dietz play focuses on the 19th century engineer who designed the first computer

"...do you tolerate the people around you? The imperfect, lumpy, fleshy people doing lumpy, fleshy people things?" Connor Hopkins,..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

After a Fashion

Stephen has bad dreams for good reason and is not fooling anyone with that yoga thing

"...anything that will make my hips and legs look lumpy. It was a dream fraught with tension and fear;..."

March 21, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Paris, Je T'Aime

Eighteen short films by an international who’s-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.

"...Alexander Payne’s “14ième Arrondissement” begins as a goof on lumpy, frumpy American tourists (Jacksonville native Margo Martindale) but ends..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ushpizin

This Israeli comedy is a wholly original movie that's set and filmed entirely within the insular realm of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Hasidim.

"...to be coveting in the holy city is a lumpy yellow citrus fruit known as the ethrog. The bitter..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pooh's Heffalump Movie

It’s not big and bright and busy and boffo, but it's a perfectly marvelous matinee option for young children. It’s a sweet little story, from a kid’s-eye view, about the anguish of being too little to do stuff.

"...just as misguidedly – until Roo befriends the juvenile Lumpy (Stanger, who’s got an adorable north-of-England patois). Original songs..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

L'Auberge Espagnole

"...affair that never quiet seems to gel: too many lumpy bits, and not enough crème...."

June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Season's Grazings

"...or not the gravy was too thin or too lumpy and never seemed to arrive at just the right..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Food Feature

John Carpenter's Vampires

"...bad everybody except Woods plays it so straight: Baldwin's earnest-though-lumpy features and delivery make for some of the goofiest..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man With the Perfect Swing

"...as pretty and willowy as Babe is plain and lumpy. She provides patience and support, somehow believing that one..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Patrick Taggart

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...In his 1997 autobiography Call Me Lumpy, the late actor Frank Bank claimed that during the..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 29-August 4

"...your fears ridiculous names like "Gaffe" and "Wheezy" and "Lumpy." 5. Be honest to the point of frankness but..."

July 29, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Film Review: Long Shot

Rogen and Theron are charming in charmless political rom-com

"...more First Kid with added jizz jokes. It’s a lumpy “opposites attract” love story that becomes a jet-setting romance,..."

March 10, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Capital T Theatre's The Hunchback Variations and ...Faustus

The company's pairing of two Mickle Maher one-acts gets lit about art in a sublime way

"...direction for Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Quasimodo is lumpy, bedraggled, yet earnest. He is something of a foley..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

“Shanie Tommasini: Slippery Clump” at the Umlauf

The Umlauf Prize-winning artist uses big, playful shapes and environmental manipulation to look at art, nature, and conservation

"...relics. Mud comes up around the bottom of a lumpy radio-like piece, Machine, about 5 feet tall and dappled..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

“Katy Horan and Teruko Nimura: Residual” at ICOSA

In their joint show, the two artists use paper crafts as a medium for exploring how traces of the past disrupt the present

"...by employing the same mediums in different technique. Three lumpy papier-mâché witches occupy the room, the most captivating, The..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Snack Jack: The Jerky of the Future

Local start-up debuts plant-based jackfruit jerky

"...delicious exotic produce. For the uninitiated: Jackfruit is that lumpy, green, gourd-like fruit about the size of your three-year-old..."

Feb. 12, 2018 Food Post by Alisha McDarris

Culinary School

"...ladles out tasty rhymes that are always smooth, never lumpy...."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

ATX Television Fest: The O.C. Panel and Script Reading

Influential teen drama still resonates more than a decade later

"...chiefly Matt Lauria, characteristically hammy and charming as a Lumpy Space Princess-inflected Marissa Cooper – clearly took things less..."

June 12, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

"Gently Fried"

Local curatorial powerhouse Los Outsiders creates a poignant three-part exhibition (or is it five?)

"...at least in terms of aesthetic flavor. The giant, lumpy, inflated, barely anthropomorphic sculpture first served as a performative..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

Do Cyborgs Dream of Uninterrupted Sleep?

Wearables, fashion, and the reality of the feminist cyborg

"...but feel a little bit like a cyborg: a lumpy, imperfect fusion of flesh and machine. However, Joy Banner,..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

From Baz to Batman

Costume designer Michael Wilkinson does it all from the Harvey Pekar schlump look in American Splendor to the fabulous Seventies fashions of American Hustle

"...linen in Nicole Holofcener's Friends With Money or the lumpy cardigans in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's American..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

The Good Eye: How Should a Fall Fashion Preview Be?

The "Good Eye" does herself

"...GE: Only if you're planning to go full-on lumpy-artsy Comme des Garçons or Yohji Yamamoto. Tailored and black..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

The AggreGAYtor: November 30

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• San Antonio pastor John Hagee, a lumpy bowl of Malt-O-Meal left to cake in the morning..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

How I Got Hitched

Richard Whittaker on Hitchcock when he was so very British

"...whole new bucket of loopholes. The narrative is oddly lumpy, and there's incoherent character motivation that would make the..."

Oct. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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